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TAVR access by a different provider

Date: Jan 19, 2022

Question:

We have had a scenario come up a couple times where an interventionalist and a cardiothoracic surgeon perform a TAVR, but need a vascular surgeon to come in and perform the access portion of the procedure for an open approach. We have been using unlisted code 37799 for this work by the vascular surgeon, since we're already billing the TAVR as a co-surgery for the interventional cardiologist and the CT surgeon. Would you agree with this?

Question ID : 16453
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